On the New Books Display this Week

Picture Book:

• "The Bears in the Bed and the Great Big Storm" by Paul BRIGHT; illustrated by Jane CHAPMAN
• "Grandpa's Shorts" by Joy WATSON; illustrated by Wendy HODDER

Fiction Book:

• "Georges Marvellous Medicine" by Roald DAHL
• "Ella and Olivia : Ballet Stars" by Yvette POSHOGLIAN (Ella and Olivia series)
• "Ella and Olivia : The New Girl" by Yvette POSHOGLIAN (Ella and Olivia series)

Non- Fiction:

• "Blood, Bones and Body Bits" by Nick ARNOLD (Horrible Science series)
• "Lions" by Sally MORGAN (Animal Lives series)
• "What About ... World Wonders?" by Brian WILLIAMS

On the New Books Display this Week

Picture Book:

• "Love Monster and the Perfect Present" by Rachel BRIGHT

Fiction Book:

• "Scaredy Pet" by Jo HURLEY (Littlest Pet Shop series)
• "The Secret of the Unicorn" by HERGE  (The Adventures of Tintin series)
• "The D'Evil Diaries" by Tatum FLYNN
• "Tiana : The Grand Opening" by Helen PERELMAN (Disney Princess series)

Non- Fiction:

• "The Gingerbread Man : An English Folktale" retold by Joy COWLEY; illustrated by In-gahng JEON (World Classics series)
• "All About Physics : Putting the Fizz back in Physics" by Richard HAMMOND
• "Ancient Egypt : The Kingdom of the Pharoahs" 

Images of the Alphabet from Space - NASA

NASA has shared a video of images of earths geographic features taken from space which show each of the letters of the alphabet. It's quite amazing and New Zealand even makes an appearance for the letter "e".

On the New Books Display this Week

Picture Book:

• "The First Hippo on the Moon" by David WALLIAMS; illustrated by Tony ROSS
• "Grandpa's Slippers" by Joy WATSON: illustrated by Wendy HODDER

Fiction Book:

• "The Bad Guys : Episode 1" by Aaron BLABEY (Bad Guys series)
• "Ella and Olivia : Best Friend Showdown" by Yvette POSHOGLIAN  (Ella and Olivia series)
• "Danny the Champion of the World" by Roald DAHL
• "Undead Pets : Flight of the Battered Budgie" by Sam HAY (Undead Pets series)

Non- Fiction:

• "Frightful Flight" by Nick ARNOLD (Horrible Science series)
• "Revolting Rhymes" by Roald DAHL

Harry Potter Book Sculptures

Harry, Hermione & Ron stand on the Deathly Hallows  (Image from : All Things Paper HERE)

Hermione, with a little help from Harry, translates the scrolls of Beedle the Bard
 (Image from HERE)

These Harry Potter themed book sculptures were created by artist Jodi Harvey-Brown. You can find more of her book sculptures on her website HERE, you can also find out about Jodi and see more sculptures HERE.

On the New Books Display this Week

Picture Book:

• "Family Forest" by Kim KANE; illustrated by Lucia MASCIULLO
• "Lost & Found" by Halle DRIVER: illustrated by Paul CORNWELL

Fiction Book:

• "The Enchanted Charms" by Geronimo STILTON (Kingdom of Fantasy series)
• "Pearlie in Paris" by Wendy HARMER  (Pearlie series)
• "Wheelnuts! Deep Sea Dash" by KNIFE & PACKER (Wheelnuts! series)

Senior Fiction:

• "An Island of Our Own" by Sally NICHOLLS

Non- Fiction:

• "Malala Yousafzai : Education Campaigner" by Caudia MARTIN (Inspirational Lives series)
• "What about ... Science and Technology" by Steve PARKER (What About ... series)

Sally Gardner & Cornelia Funke in Wellington in March

As part of the New Zealand Festival's Writers Week authors Sally Gardner and Cornelia Funke will be in Wellington for an "hour in conversation" events next month. Every Writers Week session will be followed by a book signing so readers will be able to talk to the authors and get their books signed by them. For more information on these events and to book tickets you can visit:

HERE for the Sally Gardner event at 11am on Sunday, 13th March and 

HERE for the Cornelia Funke event at 2pm on Sunday, 13th March.

On the New Books Display this Week

Picture Book:

• "The Three Cattle Dogs Gruff" by Chris GURNEY; illustrated by Myles LAWFORD
• "Fly Guy's Amazing Tricks" by Tedd ARNOLD

Fiction Book:

• "Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator" by Roald DAHL
• "300 Minutes of Danger" by Jack HEATH
• "Ella and Olivia : Cupcake Catastrophe" by Yvette POSHOGLIAN  (Ella and Olivia series)
• "Undead Pets : Rise of the Zombie Rabbit" by Sam HAY (Undead Pets series)

Non- Fiction:

• "How to Change the World with a Ball of String" by Tim COOKE
• "Animal Camouflage and Defence" by Kate Petty (Nature Files series)

New Harry Potter Book

Image via Twitter HERE

Have you heard? There's going to be a new book about Harry Potter!!

The book will be released on Harry's birthday, the 31st of July 2016. It will be different to the other books because it won't be a novel, it will be the script of the play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts I & II, in book form. The play opens in London the day before the book is released. As you will imagine A LOT of Harry Potter fans in New Zealand, and around the world, will not be able to go to London to see the play, so although it's not the novel we might have all wished for, at least we'll find out whats happened to Harry after he's left Hogwarts.

I've adapted the above information from HERE and HERE - where you can also go to find out more.

On the New Books Display this Week

Picture Book:

• "Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy" by Lynley DODD

Junior Browsing Book:

• "Minions : Seek and Find" by Trey KING

Fiction Book:

• "The Big Wish" by Brandon ROBSHAW
• "Pearlie and the Silver Fern Fairy" by Wendy HARMER (Pearlie series
• "Wheelnuts! : Space Mash" by KNIFE & PACKER (Wheelnuts! series)

Senior Fiction:

• "Geek Girl : Picture Perfect" by Holly SMALE  (Geek Girl series)

Non- Fiction:

• "Fire Fighter" by Amanda ASKEW (People Who Help Us series)
• "Teacher" by Amanda ASKEW (People Who Help Us series)
• "Police Officer" by Amanda ASKEW (People Who Help Us series)

Most Popular in 2015

The most popular books in St Brendan's School Library in 2015 were:

1st          EJ Spy School series 

             by Susannah McFarlane

2nd =   The Diary of a Wimpy Kid series

                  by Jeff Kinney

           Disney Princess Readers series 

            by Jennifer Liberts Weinberg 

                  or by Ruth Homburg

3rd     LEGO Star Wars : DK Readers series by Emma Grange or 

          by Elizabeth Dowsett

4th=  Minecraft Handbook series; Littlest Angel series by Elizabeth 

         Pulford; Freak Street series by Knife & Packer.  

5th=  Pearlie series by Wendy Harmer; Daisy-Head Maizie by Dr Seuss; The Very Ugly Bug by Liz Pichon; Boy vs Beast series by Mac Park; Trenches (Horrible Histories series) by Terry Deary; The Dragon Prophecy (The Land of Fantasy series) by Geronimo Stilton; Little Darlings by Jacqueline Wilson; Zac's Test Drive series (Zac Power) by H I Larry.
     

6th=   The Treehouse series by Andy Griffiths;  Oliver's Party by Margaret Beames; Milo and the Magical Stones by Marcus Pfister; Disney Joke Book; Snowball (Puppy Place series) by Ellen Miles; Billie B Brown : The Midnight Feast (Billie B Brown series) by Sally Rippin; The Great Ice Age (Geronimo Stilton Graphic Novels series) by Geronimo Stilton; The Journey to Atlantis (Thea Stilton special edition) by Thea Stilton; Pilot & Huxley series by Dan McGuiness; The Santa Trap by Jonathan Emmett; How Santa Really Works by Alan Snow.

Many of these books are previous favourites and are also on earlier Most Popular in ... lists, but a few are new to the list this year. 

Is your favourite book or series of books on our Most Popular list? 

On the New Books Display this Week

Picture Book:

• "A Day with the Animal Builders" by Sharon RENTTA
• "LeQuesnoy : The Story of the Town New Zealand Saved" by Glynn HARPER; illustrated by Jenny COOPER

Fiction Book:

• "Ariel : The Birthday Surprise" by Gail HERMAN (Disney Princess series)
• "Cool School" by John MARSDEN
• "Creep Street" by John MARSDEN
• "Make Me the Flower Girl" by Pamela FREEMAN (SOLO's series)

Senior Fiction:

• "Skulduggery Pleasant : Armageddon Outta Here" by Derek LANDY   (Skulduggery Pleasant series)

Non- Fiction:

• "Military Vehicles" by Jack WESLEY
• "What About ... The Universe?" by Brian WILLIAMS (What About ... series)

Back to School 2016

Image from HERE

Welcome back to school for 2016. I hope you had a great time over the holidays and that you've been enjoying the sunny weather we've had recently. I also hope you found time to read some good books! If you think any would be great additions to our library then please come and tell me all about them or add a sticky note to the Book Wishlist 2016 - just in case we haven't already got them!

This week in the library I'm updating the classroom lists and adding new students to the library database so that you're all in your correct classroom for 2016.

Next week things should be back to normal, with new books on display and the library will be open for classroom visits and during most lunchtimes.

See you soon.